Tracing the thread…
Her films celebrate textile patterns, clothing, and fabric as visual storytelling elements, most notably in 'The Gleaners and I' where she explores handmade textiles and domestic crafts.
Sergei Parajanov Soviet Union/ArmeniaHis maximalist cinema transforms textiles, tapestries, and elaborate costumes into primary visual art forms, treating fabric and weaving as metaphors for cultural identity and resistance.
Claire Denis FranceHer films engage intimately with clothing, texture, and tactile surfaces as expressions of desire and cultural memory, using textiles to explore touch and embodied experience.